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Ananias and Sapphira Hide the Truth
The last few verses of chapter 4 tell how church members were selling their possessions and bring-ing the money to the church. The people were praising God for the generous offering of Barnabas. Ananias and Sapphira decided that they would like to have the people think they were as spiritual ...

Effective Church Ministry
This passage gives a run-down of what went on in the early Church: 1. Where did the church meet? (v. 12) – They met where everyone could see them, in the open space on Solomon’s Porch, one of the two great porches that surrounded the temple area ...

Obedience to God and Man
As you can imagine, the temple guards were perplexed upon finding the empty prison cells (v. 24). They were soon informed, however, that their prisoners were already back in the temple, preaching as though nothing had happened (v. 25). The guards once again arrested the apostles, but they did ...

Gamaliel Convinces the Council
On their second appearance before the Sanhedrin the apostles found an unexpected helper - Gamaliel, a Pharisee (vv. 33-34). He was highly respected and loved. He was a kindly man with a far wider tolerance than his fellows. When the Sanhedrin seemed likely to resort to violent ...